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| Part No: | B0013XZ2QK |
| Manufacturer: | Universal Studios |
| MFG Part: | 61100566 |
| Customer Rating: | 4.0 / 5.0 |
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Academy Award® winners Tom Hanks Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman star in this compelling and witty film from Oscar®-winning director Mike Nichols and Primetime Emmy®-winning writer Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing). Based on the outrageous true story Charlie Wilson's War shows how one congressman who loved a good time one Houston socialite who loved a good cause and one renegade CIA agent who loved a good fight conspired to bring about the largest covert operation in history.System Requirements:Running Time: 102 minutes Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/BIOGRAPHY Rating: R UPC: 025195004848 Manufacturer No: 61100566
Political movies about backroom negotiations need not be dry or heavy-handed, as
Charlie Wilson's War delightfully proves. Based on the true story of playboy congressman Wilson's efforts to fund Afghanistan's defense against the Soviet invasion of the 1980s, the film is borne along on breezy attitude and a peppery script by
West Wing scribe Aaron Sorkin. Wilson, played by Tom Hanks (who also produced), is the perfect hero for this kind of tale, because there's nothing perfect or heroic about him: He's a highball-swilling, fanny-pinching gadabout who becomes radicalized on the issue of helping the Afghans against their mighty aggressor. He has help in the form of a right-wing Texas anti-Communist (Julia Roberts) with a genius for raising money, and a sardonic CIA operative (Philip Seymour Hoffman, stealing the show) who lacks all the social skills Wilson has in abundance. Sorkin's syncopated speech is just the ticket for director Mike Nichols, who understands exactly how to keep this kind of political comedy popping (the complicated story comes in at a hair over 90 minutes, amazingly). Some scoundrels are on the right side of the angels, and the movie's Charlie Wilson is one of them. --
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| Charlie Wilson's War | 2010-05-31 | 4 / 5 |
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This is a BRILLIANT movie. This is also a true story. The fact that it is true AND a great movie makes it even better.
Charlie Wilson was a man who liked to drink, womanize and swear a lot. If you can get past that, you will also see he was a wonderful man with a HUGE heart. And you will be blown away by this movie.
This movie entertains you. It makes you think. And then, in the end, it makes you cry. |
| History can be Entertaining | 2010-04-17 | 4 / 5 |
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| I think the acting in this movie is great. Tom Hanks and the CIA agent especially are very convincing characters. Julia Roberts also plays her part well. It is easy to tell a lot of the actual war footage is just that... not real-time or Hollywood effects. The story of Charlie Wilson in this just proves the old adage that truth is stranger [and I might add more entertaining] than fiction! |
| Nothing special | 2010-04-07 | 3 / 5 |
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| I did not find this film interesting. It was hard to understand if you are not American as the accents were hard to understand - and I am British! |
| Charlie Wilson's War (Full Screen) | 2010-02-19 | 5 / 5 |
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In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas who seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, prodded by his major conservative supporter, Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight of the people are suffering in the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. With the help of the maverick CIA agent, Gust Avrakotos, Wilson dedicates his canny political efforts to supply the Afghan mujahideen with the weapons and support to defeat the Soviet Union. However, Charlie Wilson eventually learns that while military victory can had, there are other consequences and prices to that fight that are ignored to everyone's sorrow. "Charlie Wilson's War", is a fascinating and eye-opening account of the most unlikely difference maker imaginable. "Charlie Wilson's War" is a sparkling, sophisticated satire that chronicles the behind-the-scene machinations of three colorful characters comprising Charlie's Team. Charlie is beautifully portrayed by Tom Hanks in a solid, slightly understated fashion. Thoroughly entertaining and surprisingly amusing movie.
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| Hollywood's War | 2010-02-10 | 4 / 5 |
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| Charlie Wilson's War was Hollywood's take on the book of the same name. The book was very well done and rich in detail, the movie, by necessity, was waaay more simplistic. Lost were the rich details of a complex man, a chauvanist pig if ever there was one, but a patriotic pig. But what the movie lacks in details it makes up in entertainment; after all, Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks are first magnatude stars, although they are one upped by the actor playing the CIA agent. All together worth seeing. |
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